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In the bustling economy of the cell, little bubbles called vesicles serve as container ships, ferrying cargo to and from the port - the cell membrane. Some of these vesicles, called post-Golgi vesicles, export cargo made by the cell's protein factory.
Self-assembling and self-organizing systems are the Holy Grails of nanotechnology, but nature has been producing such systems for millions of years. A team of scientists has taken a unique look at how thousands of bacterial membrane proteins are able to assemble into clusters that direct cell movement to select chemicals in their environment. Their results provide valuable insight into how ...
Berkeley Lab scientists have shown how thousands of bacterial membrane proteins are able to assemble into clusters that direct cell movement to select chemicals in their environment.Self-assembling and self-organizing systems are the Holy Grails of nanotechnology, but nature has been producing such systems for millions of years.
In the gut bacterium E. coli, chemical receptors cluster into a "nose" that leads the microbe to food, a process called chemotaxis. UC Berkeley biophysicist Jan Liphardt now shows that these receptors cluster spontaneously on the bacteria's surface, providing clues to the self-assembly of large proteins.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Self-assembling and self-organizing systems are the Holy Grails of nanotechnology, but nature has been producing such systems for millions of years. A team of scientists has taken a unique look at how thousands of bacterial membrane proteins are able to assemble into clusters that direct cell movement to select chemicals in their environment. Their results provide valuable ...
"This invention features permeability-enhancer molecules and methods to increase membrane permeability of various molecules, such as nucleic acids, polynucleotides, oligonucleotides, enzymatic nucleic acid molecules, antisense nucleic acid molecules, 2-5A antisense chimeras, triplex forming oligonucleotides, decoy RNAS, dsRNAs, siRNAs, aptamers, or antisense nucleic acids containing nucleic acid ...
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